Dead Celebrity Alert

Peter Zinner, whose decades-long career as a film editor included the first two “Godfather” films and an Oscar for 1978’s “The Deer Hunter,” has died. He was 88.

Zinner died Tuesday at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica of complications from an almost five-year battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his daughter Katina Zinner said. …

It was Zinner’s film editing work on Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 groundbreaking mob drama “The Godfather” that earned him an Academy Award nomination with coeditor William Reynolds. … Read full obituary

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